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Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)

Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 138

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134 ARCHITECTURE of Palestine were divided into aisles by- ranges of columns. A second type of church was planned around a central point in a circle, octagon, or cross, and derived from tombs. A third, the cella trichora, probably originated in burial chapels. These had simple naves, and a cluster… … Fig. 22. church from Gortyna, Crete ; and Fig. 23 is from a round church at Antepellius in Asia Minor, from a MS. drawing by Texier. All may be of the fourth to sixth century. In the fourth century, after the Peace of the Church, Christian edifices were built all over the Empire. The foundations of…

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